Brazil’s environment ministry said it will continue operations to curb deforestation and fires in the Amazon and other regions, reversing an earlier announcement that it would halt such operations starting Monday.

The European Union’s top court has ruled that an agreement that allows big tech companies to transfer data to the United States is invalid.

A U.S. judge has halted the execution of a federal death row inmate whose lawyers argue suffers from dementia.

Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic. He also warned authorities could use unspecified 'force' to halt travel between major cities. He did not elaborate.

For the first time in four years, life expectancy in the U.S. has gone up. The increase is small - just a month. But it marks at least a temporary halt to a downward trend.

Boeing Co. will temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 MAX jet starting in January as it struggles to get approval from regulators to put the plane back in the air.

A federal judge in California has reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration's plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border.  

A federal judge has temporarily halted deportations of families who have been recently reunited after they were separated by the Trump administration. 

The New York Stock Exchange says a technical problem that has suspended trading since late morning is an internal technical issue and not the result of a security breach.